WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * As ICE Law Enforcement Works Without Pay, They Arrest More Worst of the Worst Over the Weekend * WASHINGTON -- While Americans across the country enjoyed their weekends, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and our Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers continued to arrest the worst of the worst without pay. Some of the worst of the worst arrested included vicious child se  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 6 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-21) on October 3, 2025, by Maria Dolores Gadea and Oscar Jorda entitled "Local Projections Bootstrap Inference." Here are excerpts: * * * Bootstrap procedures for local projections typically rely on assuming that the data generating process (DGP) is a finite order vector autoregression (VAR), often taken to be that implied by the local projection at horizon 1. Al  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 6 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-20) on September 30, 2025, by John G. Fernald, Amit Gandhi, Dimitrije Ruzic, and James Traina entitled "Micro and Macro Perspectives on Production-Based Markups." Here are excerpts: * * * We review the "production approach" to estimating markups--the ratio of price to marginal cost. Paired with increasingly rich microdata and advances in production function estim  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: ICE and Oklahoma Highway Patrol Arrests 91 Illegal Aliens Driving 18-Wheelers on Highways in Successful Three Day Action on I-40 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released the following statement on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's (OHP) successful three-day crack down on targeted threats to public safe ty along I-40   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- The Internal Revenue Service issued the following notice (No. 2025-52) on Oct. 6, 2025, entitled "Extension of Replacement Period for Livestock Sold on Account of Drought". * * * SECTION 1. PURPOSE This notice provides guidance regarding an extension of the replacement period under Sec. 1033(e) of the Internal Revenue Code for livestock sold on account of drought in specified counties. SECTION 2. BACKGROUND .01 Nonrecognition of Gain on Involuntary Conversion of Livest  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, Oct. 7 -- The Washington State Department of Health issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2025: * * * State disciplines health care providers The Washington State Department of Health has taken disciplinary actions or withdrawn charges against the following health care providers in our state. The department's Health Systems Quality Assurance Division works with boards, commissions, and advisory committees to set licensing standards for more than 80 health care pro  more